To hate slimming world?

[TOADfan]

My 3 best friends are on slimming world and I dont hear enough of how wonderful it is and today I went to doctors who instead of offering nutritional advice said "go to slimming world"

I dont get how anyone thinks it is healthy.

You can eat unlimited muller light yoghurts but only 225ml of milk
Unlimited pasta but no brown bread or wheat ceral (unless its an extra)
Unlimited fruit but an avacado is 16 syns!! (Yes high in fat but bloody good fat)
Not to mention smash, frylight, hi fi bars and chicken made with diet coke.

I get it works for people and yes there are good results but it does not make nutritional sense.

Am i the only one who doesnt understand it?

I left slimming world after many years and lots of stones lost and gained and lost again. I stopped telling myself that I wasn't able to cope without lots of food, plate piled high, eating til I'm stuffed. I tried a different way, counted calories, chose nourishment over quantity and cut out most processed rubbish. I find it very difficult calorie counting and I'm not at target yet, but I don't miss SW.

And scan bran cake?? Wtf? If bran tasted like cake, we wouldn't be fat would we?

I like cherry Muller lights. Sw spent day avocados are bad, they have syns so you can use your syns to eat them. There seems to be this idea that you have to use your syns on 'treats', but you don't, you can use them for all sorts. Coconut milk for eh in a Thai curry.

It's easy to bash these eating plans, but there are so many people who seem to say oh I don't want to eat all that crap, yet admit they are still overweight so something isn't working for them. At least the sw people area trying to do something positive to change their eating habits.

Should be sw doesn't say avocados are bad, sorry.

If anyone offers you a half a syn cake (echo "yes half a syn for a whoooooole cake") run a bloody mile.

Its basically sweetened omelette with some sort of cream pretending to be tasty and some pureed berries.

Vile.

Nope I'm not a consultant but I have been to groups.

My view is that if you're fat, you're eating too much of everything or only eating the worst options. SW helps to try and train you into having proper meals, and because the majority of people aren't capable of restricting the 'naughty' stuff (and yes I get it, nothing should be naughty - but it is when you are actively trying to lose weight!) it offers options that are better than pigging out at McDonald's.

My consultant was obviously better than others because we mainly talked about the meals we'd been making, although I admit she did tell us when new Muller lights were out.

It's easy to have snide opinions when you haven't done it yourself, or when you've struggled to lose weight on your own. And yes, it's restrictive. Because you don't lose weight by not restricting your intake of food, even if it's only short term.

The original red/green day slimming world plan was brilliant, if you followed that weight would drop off. There's science behind not eating carbs and protein at the same meal.

I think it was possibly too successful though so they changed it.

"I think it was possibly too successful though so they changed it."

Nope, they just swapped where you were having the carbs.

The payoff to being able to eat both (because it wasn't to do with in the same meal, but at all as it went in complete days) is the loss of healthy extras, there's only one now.

It works fine.

It's an interesting debate, isn't it? I go to slimming world, and I'm struggling at the moment as my heart isn't really in it. I've seen people lose weight and put it back on - I've lost weight and put it back on. Does it mean that slimming world doesn't work? Personally I think it says more about the individuals. Losing weight is bloody hard - that's why there's so much money in it. If there was an easy answer, if people could just flip a switch and change their whole relationship with food, there wouldn't be an issue. I don't think the issue is that slimming world, weight watchers doesn't work, I think it's much more to do with the fact that losing weight is tough, and keeping it off is even tougher. It's not as simple as eating less, exercising more - it's also about understanding what makes you eat the wrong things and preventing that from happening, changing the way you eat for the long term.

I lost 4 stone on slimming world and my hair went from thin to lovely and thick.

It's changed my life forever.

It's works. You don't have to eat processed foods (I didn't).

chickenvindaloo no one, but no one, has got fat on fruit

Diets don't work, they have around 85% failure rate long term. But some people Spend their whole lives on them and that's probably better than getting even fatter is it?

What sort of nutritional advice where you expecting from a GP?